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NYC to Fund Coronavirus Surveillance Sequencing as Congress Proposes $2B for Nationwide Program
Companion bills to be introduced in the House and Senate on Thursday would task the CDC with identifying and tracking emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants.
The project will result in the creation of a national cohort for research, as well as an integrated clinical and genomic data infrastructure at the national level.
Lexogen Nabs Austrian Funding for RNA-Seq Coronavirus Test
Lexogen did not disclose the funding amount, but said it was one of €16 million ($17.4 million) in awards from the Austria Research Promotion Agency.
UK Government Invests $28M in FIND to Support SARS-CoV-2 Test Development
FIND will use the funding to support the development of rapid tests, especially in low- and middle-income countries.
UK Biobank to Make Whole-Genome Sequencing Data on 500K-Sample Repository Publicly Available
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The project dovetails with a separate effort to sequence the whole exomes of the samples, the first 50,000 of which became available to researchers this month.